How to remove old deck boards. The easy way.
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- This is a trick I learned years ago.. Grind off the tops of the nails, and the old deck board comes right out. No damage to the other boards, and this is easy to do. Half the time.
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WOW, 5 years later and your tips are helping people all around the world. Now you helped me in Canada 🇨🇦👏👏 2024 Thanks for the tip😀
Thanks for the tip with using a grinder to remove nails and screws. It saved a lot of time with expediting installing the new boards. Much appreciated.
Your welcome it really works.
Dude! You are a life saver. This didn't even cross my mind. It's been taking me like 10 minutes each stripping off my old deck boards.
Glad it helped you Chris.
You saved me time and effort. Not to mention the anxiety of wondering "How do I get these boards off"
Brilliant! This is exactly what I needed to know to replace 3 rotted boards. I couldn’t afford to hire someone and wanted to tackle the job myself. You just made that possible and I really appreciate that!
Your more than welcome this works for me every time. It's easy but a bit smoky. LOL.
Thanks for sharing. I'm looking at a variety of approaches and this one is certainly original!
It works.
Can't believe he ran a marathon and went straight to decking! What a boss!
WOW, this works!!! Also used a cutoff wheel and simply snipped off the nail heads
Thanks man, you are the real MVP!!!
Great video and interesting comment!
I have seen similar issues with water pipe leaks behind drywall, causing termite infestation. Avoid homes with polybutylene pipes although they are covered under home insurance.
Do not expect Home Inspectors to move anything to do their job. Also, I have never seen one go under a house. A real estate agent's primary concern is making a transaction happen. Dont expect them to notice anything which will derail that purpose.
Love your stuff iv been doing the same thing for years my grandpa showed me this a long time ago
My man! Thank you! Gonna try this in the morning!
It works.
This is perfect. I wanted to save my old boards to build a rustic fence in my garden. One bit of advice from an old guy. Wear knee pads on those jobs... your body will thank you. ; )
You helped me save so much time, thank you.
Your welcome glad this video helps.
Thank you. Great trick.
Used this tip this morning after watching. Works like a charm.
Yes it does work, and I know people think it's weird, but if you a old screws this is the best way to pull the board.
Great trick! I'm a flooring and decking contractor. I'm going to use that tomorrow!
Great hope it works for you like it works for me.
What is a good grinder to use that's affordable?
Man this is about to save me HOURS! Thanks for the tip. Cheers
It works too.
Will this work for spiral nails? I would like to flip my 1.5 inch thick decking boards and pulling the nails is crazy hard!
I AM WORKIN ON MY DECK. I FOUND A 18” NAIL PULLER FROM LOWES IT HAS A “CATS PAW” TO DIG UNDER THE NAILS INTO THE BOARDS. ITS TIME CONSUMING WORKS WELL AND QUICKER THAN GRINDING. I AM FLIPPING THE BOARDS OVER AND REUSING. HOPE TO GET ANOTHER 10 YEARS OUT OF THE DECK. WHEN I BREAK OFF THE NAIL HEADS (ABOUT 1%) I PULL THE BOARD STRAIT UP AND THEN PULL THE NAIL. THANKS FOR YOUR VIDEOS. AKES ME THINK AND GOT ME STARTED ON MY PROJECT
Screws are very hard to pull out using that tool.
What if they are screws and the heads are stripped?
Brilliant!!! You just saved my ass!!!!!
Does this work for screws vs nails?
What type of grinder do you recommend?
works 100% of the time, usually.. half the time... oh yeah, and if the builders used screws, then you are scaaaa rooood.
I see comments putting alot of criticism to this method, but if you are not a moron, if you're not reckless and if you have a need to remove an old deck, this will suffice. Most of these thinkers havent had to remove an old deck with really difficult and old nails. I use galvanized deck screws for many many many years which is why I rarely need this method. But with some old methods of construction (and old ways of thinking), a method like this works better while salvaging the materials.
I think the "set fire to your deck" is probably the dumbest thing Ive read all year. Other than comments praising Nancy Pelosi.
Thank you for your comment, and real old deck boards if you only have to replace a few here and there. This works great, as to not damage the other wood you are not taking out.
What you need to pull nails and also save the materials is a Slide Hammer Nail Puller.
Crescent has one. I have a BAHCO that is 40 years old and good as new, so event though it cost more, the handle is better.
You just slam the head into the wood around the nail, clamp then extend the slider and pull. You will rip out 6" nails with little effort.
I like my slide hammer too. There is also a leverage tool to disassemble wooden shipping pallets. I like that too. A guy I know; gets underneath a deck and uses a jack and a piece of 4x4 to save the deck material.
Very good tool that your talking about NoC
Great video awsome idea
Clever. I have a few boards to replace in the morning and will give it a try.
It works
But your left with a nail or screw shank you need to pull out .. it you grind it off , it may be in the way when you reattach a board later.. And , a screw or nail that has started to break down will cause rot in the joist left over the years... Just pull them out to begin with is best and its quicker actually ..
The best thing about these videos? It attracts people who share their ideas and techniques. I'm looking at a massive re-boarding project on the place I bought - an end of life deck that will need either 75% new boards or the whole %$@# top layer. I had my suspicions about leaving cut nails. It might be a coin toss, will the support be end of life next time the deck needs a top layer or not. The vertical 4x4s will likely need work, some of them are in the ground.
Great tip. Kinda disturbing that you'd charge someone triple because they were in a bad spot and wouldn't be able to sell their house though.
"americans". I'm not against charging extra due to the short notice and urgency but charging triple is just absurd.
Thanks for the tip. Good stuff
If your gonna throw the timber, take front deck board out and cut alongside the sub frame with skill saw.
What happens if you have to do the Joists under the boards? How do you change those one at a time.
No Brain then it's a different demo job
Thank you 🙏
Your welcome.
So this guy towards the end of his deck video tells how he decided to take advantage of a customer that discovered a mold problem the day before closing on the house she was selling. He tells her he will be charging her 3 times the amount because she is in a bad spot and can't sell the house with the mold. He even give legal advice and is wrong on that too. That problem behind the fridge would not stop a sale, smart Realtors would get estimates for proper repair to be done by a licensed person to do mold remediation and would have the cost of that repair escrowed for the buyer to pay the person and have it done right. WOW! I would like to see his credentials for mold remediation. What is worse is from what he said he did to treat the mold was not the way it was supposed to be done. I hope he at least had all humans and pets leave the premises before he started his overpriced cover up work.
Besides being unscrupulous by tripling the fee....I saw the other video that shows the mold. Based on what I could find out by a little reading, I wouldn't call that "level 3" (or stage 3) mold. It wasn't even 10 sq ft of damaged area. And as for not selling the house... rubbish. I bought a house that had some mold in a few roof rafters and some sheeting where there had been a leak. The seller simply included a credit as part of the sale to pay a roofer to tear off the shingles, sheeting, and rafters, and replace it all to get rid of the mold. The real red flag to me was that he treated that mold with bleach, which will NOT eliminate it forever. Bleach doesn't penetrate the wood deeply enough.
Debbie I have no words for your comment. The job was completed, and the inspection was done, and it passed. No more mold.
@@tnoel374PERFECT!! Great job!!
Safety Glasses?
YOU JUST SAVED MY BACK!!!! THANKS !!!
anyway to do this and keep the old boards? or will the grinder only destroy the nail head? before watching this i literally quit my deck repair. u give me hope!
Thanks Tom, your grinder just reminded me I have a dental appointment tomorrow!
LOL don't forget to go to the dentist.
Sure hope your dentist didn’t just grind the top off your tooth!
Questions:
Could you show how to use a circular saw to cut the boards?
How long must you wait till you can stain (solid stain) pressure treated wood?
What is the coldest outdoor temperature that you can apply stain?
Thanks so much!
What if the screws are counter sunk in the wood? And are you just cutting across the head of the screw?
Yes just cut the heads off then the board pops right up.
@@tnoel374 it works! I'm replacing a deck and the first day I got about 5 boards removed,
How much is that grinder $500?
What type of grinder tool did you use? and what type of stone?
Makatea standard metal girding wheel
Very smart
if the boards are not rotted through, you can just flip them over to double the life of them, also apply some tar to the edge of the joist that touches the deck boards, prevents water from rotting both the deck board and the joist
Great video.. thank you very much
Sweet!
Thanks, I’ve done that before but Father Time made me forget.
Toms first how to video! Thanks for sharing the trick!
LOL it is my first How Too.
What kind o disk did you use?
Metal grinding disk
The nails on mine are buried about halfway thru the wood.
Still will work
@@tnoel374 ended up using a long crowbar.
pry bar is the best and quickest.
Robert you stand the chance or damaging the other side boards, with a crow bar.
MR. FIX-ALL INC. or if you know the proper way to do it you wont
How much do you charge per square foot for removal and installation? I charge $5 a square foot for removal and $200 for dump fee, I take it to my farm.
could just use a scrap piece of wood to put behind the pry bar so it doesnt damage the other deck board..
That is another way of doing it too.
I Watch alot of his videos and there is one common theme...He has no clue how to do things
Thanks Billy for your comment, and I still am booked for work.
STILL NOT THAT EASY IF YOU HAVE 1 1/2 INCH DECKING BUT HELPS ....
Great video. I enjoyed seeing how you get it done. I'm definitely going to try that trick. I swear I could smell the smoke while I was watching!
Yes it works and it make the removing of the boards easy, and clean.
Deck Wrecker amazon, easy
Dude.... know what you get when you bleach mold? Well fed mold. Bleach evaporates and leaves the water. Next time get the right chemicals.
Bleach works on everything
Tomorrow we start tearing down our deck, the entire deck not a few boards. Would you still recommend this method for total tear down? Current deck is nailed. I will be screwing down during reconstruction. Will the presence of nail bodies impede screwing down new deck? Thanks!
I am buying a multi-tool to do this job. What type of blade do I need to grind nails away?
Carbide
"How to set fire to you porch"
LOL Not really never have set fire to a deck.
Does anyone know if this same method will work with deck screws? The screws on my deck are old, stripped, and painted over so they are not budging.
Did you get them out? There's another video on YT where a guy recommends using a long screwdriver bit and a hammer to strike the screw hard several times which apparently helps to loosen it in the wood before trying to turn it out. Depending on how stripped the heads are this might work.
I'll have to try this grinding off nails... 👍
It works Bob.
Hi Tom not bad I like the grinder idea instead of using the grinder to finish off the nails left in the joist I use my sawzall and just cut them right off at the base of the nail real quick and easy
Thanks Jeff that too is another way of doing too.
No goggles?
Ring Nails counter sunk with a Air Nailer are the problem. Tried this grinder thing and it took too long to get down to the nail head through the wood, grinders don't work that well with wood. If the nails are at the surface this will probably work fine but you still have to deal with the nail shank.
I HAVE A BETTER WAY USE A RIPE SAW, MEASURE THE TEETH OF THE SAW TO THE THICKNESS OF THE BOARDS, THAT WAY YOU WILL NOT CUT INTO THE SUB-FRAME,AND CUT OFF WHERE THE NAILS ARE BUT KEEP AWAY FROM THE NAILS ABOUT 25 MM;-) USE A CUTTING WOOD DISK ON YOUR GRINDER SAY 100 MM IF YOUR NOT TAKEN OFF ALL THE BOARDS OF COURSE;-)
I guess if you deck has screws.....your screwed!
He said it also works on SCREWS.
You are going to help me in Australia
Sure can do.
A grinder? Wow now that’s a first. Wrong tool choice to start off with but then no safety glasses, not to mention no hearing protections. So much wrong with this example of ‘how to’. C’mon Tom.
Thanks bondpit for your comment.
Bondpit Agreed! My son followed his video and a nail shot up & protruded his retina, he is now blind in his right eye. No disclaimer on this video & supposed to be a How-to!? Legal action in the making, Tom....Expect a HEAVY LAWSUIT & these videos to be banned from TH-cam!
@@lexxismith4701 he has another chance to be careful next time with the other eye 👁️
Lexxi Smith lol give me a break
I'd blame the father first. If you didn't teach him better then that's on you. Your son must be 16 years old and never done a any jobs with real tools. Common sense is a virtue.
But then you will have nails sticking out of the joists
Nice!
Then you pound a nail into a nail nice 👍🏻 not how to do it
As you seen in this video it does work.
Thanks for the tip Tom. Whatever works for you brother
It's works Bob
Cats paw way faster
For screws?
Not for screws.
Saved me a ton of time and frustration! Using a cat's claw is for schmucks.
Good idea Tom .. next time I see u I will stop and said hello
Thank you Rudy do that, love to say hello.
Thank you sir
Cats paw and a hammer.
unless they are screwed in. i just finished breaking down my back deck and I bent a wrecking bar. I don’t think a cats paw has enough leverage.
The Lincoln repair Guy If there’s screws, you unscrew them. Lol
This method looks extremely laborious and dangerous.
Seriously? Literally cut every nail head along an individual deck board X every board on the deck surface? Ummm....no thanks.
If you're removing the board to discard what's the problem. It tookb 2;1/2 min to remove board without prying against the others. I remove planks every deck repair. That's a win.
God bless Tom!!!!! keep going brother
Thank you so very much Trent.
Seems pretty smart to me.
I goes work, alittle smoky but no damage to other boards.
Very good chance you'll try to nail into an existing nail.
Nope it has never happened different spacing on new nail
That grinder was Smoking! 😂😂😂
OH YEAH smoking.
Sure that wasn't the wood?
Thanks!!!
That’s for nails. These are screws
Like you, I always look to find a situation where someone is in desperate need so I can charge them 3 times what it is worth ...
I could have pull 4 boards up by the time you did 1. Smh
Don't forget your eye protection. Safety first. Great videos.
Thank you will do.
im so disappointed. it pushed my nails further in and ruined my boards.
This is not for boards that has nails, this process is for screws. But hammer the nails into the wood after you pull the board up.
But you said in the video you were grinding nails and you also said that this works for nails and screws 😂😂
That’s a hell of a job. Just staining the deck alone would take I’m guessing 2 days at least. That’s with using a brush. I know you can spray but spraying isn’t the correct way and will not get into the wood cracks.
Yes 2 days 16 hours to stain this deck.. I charged $2000.00 for the staining part.
MR. FIX-ALL INC. what stain did you use ?
I haven't got to that yet.
MR. FIX-ALL INC. when I started to didn’t know better and used Thompson. But that stuff comes off in 6 months. I did a job a few years ago and the guy paid $75 a gallon. Some of that stain is high dollar.
Try oil-based, solid color stain if you can get it. The latex stuff is easier to find but you have to re-stain the deck every year if you live in the snow belt. The oil-based stain costs more but lasts several times longer.
You sound like Ted Nugent 😂
Thanks
You did it the hard way. I'm a white privileged drafted by LBJ disabled Vietnam combat veteran. Here in Texas I'd go down to the street corner in Dallas, Texas and get me some Illegal Mexican labor. We'd get the job done. I didn't see your safety glasses, mask, or ear plugs. Come on man. Excellent video. Inspectors are bad anywhere I've ever been. Eaglegards...
LOL LOL LOL I fine, without the glasses, the ear plugs, and everything else safety wish. LOL be there in the morning, it's beer 30 now. Big Money today.
Sweet mask bro. 🤦🏻♂️
Ok Karen xD
Not practical.
If you don't think so don't do this then. It works for me.
Waste of time
So he decided to take advantage of the situation, wow that’s terrible. You sir, are a bad apple.
Bad apple really?